Tonight's rugby news as England international questions Wales' 'desperation' and Liam Williams' emotional conduct

Here are the latest rugby headlines on Tuesday evening.

England international Chris Ashton has questioned Liam Williams' emotional conduct during the first Test against South Africa and suggested Wales were not desperate enough in the final heartbreaking minute of the match.

The Springboks snatched victory at the death in a niggly, confrontational encounter when Tomos Williams' long box kick saw Willie Le Roux and Lukhanyo Am run from 22 to 22 to put the home team in position to win the game with a late penalty.

Ashton, speaking on the BBC's Rugby Union Weekly podcast, says Wales didn't do enough in that final play, and he also called into question Liam Williams and Dan Biggar's emotional involvement in the match.

After Jamie Roberts had suggested 13-man Wales' kick chase was too narrow in the decisive moment, Ashton said: "The chase wasn't actually that skinny, you know. They've only got Le Roux and Kolbe. It didn't scream to me 'we are desperate to win this game'. He should have been tackled, he shouldn't have been allowed to get the pass away. In the middle, it [the desperation] wasn't there. To allow a player like Le Roux to run across the pitch and throw a 20-metre pass is just non-negotiable."

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Ashton then asked Roberts if he thought Biggar and Williams had got too caught up in the occasion and allowed themselves to be distracted.

"Do you think Dan Biggar and Liam Williams are too emotional sometimes?" he asked. "Is it a ploy to stand up to South Africa or are they being distracted by the emotion they put into the game? Liam Williams, especially, is such a great player but I felt we hardly saw him in the game. All I saw him was pushing, messing